Hospitals: Threat or menace?
By Jay Levitt - Thu, 05/01/2008 - 3:12pm.
Our hospitals are releasing deadly, toxic fumes into the atmosphere! The Globe has the story:
Boy poisoned by carbon monoxide released from hospital
Oh... my mistake. Just a bad headline from whichever Globe editor didn't quit last week.
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Might not be the Globe's fault...specifically
While a Globe editor probably could've changed this to a better headline, they likely didn't come up with this one on their own. It probably came from the Associated Press. The Boston Herald has the same exact headline on its Web site.
Also, probably only online and not in print
Both papers seem to be presenting AP articles on their web sites, probably without much editorial filtering or rewriting.
Indeed. There have been a
Indeed. There have been a number of times that I've seen the "correction" wires that the AP sends which have no content, just something like "-dead, +injured" on the Globe.
I see no problem with the
I see no problem with the headline - works for me. I had to strain to see the second meaning. When you have to keep it short, these things happen.
Sorry
Sorry to hear about the strain, anon. You should go to a hospital for that.
Breaking news
Anon gets the headline chastised by Jay
Zing.
Best!
That's the best headline I've seen in a long long time!
Sending it by email to my list of newspaper friends.
Those newspapers aren't
Those newspapers aren't really your friends; they just like you for your page views.
Oh yeah? Then why...
I am fairly certain there is a comeback, too dirty to print here anyway, involving the word "masthead". Sadly, I can't quite think of it.